Numbers
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Columbia Missouri
Numbers just means that all of the factory original parts are on the car. Most components of your car have part numbers stamped into them, indicating what year they were installed, on what model, and relating to your VIN. Numbers just means that you still have original engine, trans, yata yata yata.
Every part on your car has a number...most of those matter when considering a car numbers matching.
If that's what you like, then feel lucky. If you don't really care about if you ever sell your car or what it's worth, then the matching numbers really don't mean much.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2002
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From: Sherwood Park AB
The stamp on the engine block should match the last few digits of your VIN. Your alternator, carb, heads, dist, tranny, rear end numbers should match the numbers listed in the Corvette Black Book. The term numbers matching seems to be a relative term.
I bought my 78 from a corvette dealer, the add said "Numbers Match". The block, tranny, rear end match but the carb, dist and heads don't.
I bought my 78 from a corvette dealer, the add said "Numbers Match". The block, tranny, rear end match but the carb, dist and heads don't.
Safety Car
Joined: Sep 1999
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From: AnyTown NJ
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
A good book to get would be "Corvette by the numbers" by Alan Colvin.
Also a good resource is the NCRS Judging Guide for your year. It contains descriptions of finishes, part numbers, casting numbers, survey results, how to interpret date codes etc.
www.ncrs.org
Also a good resource is the NCRS Judging Guide for your year. It contains descriptions of finishes, part numbers, casting numbers, survey results, how to interpret date codes etc.
www.ncrs.org
Team Owner
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From: Massillon,Ohio USA
2020 C3 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12
...all Corvettes are "numbers" cars, it's just that some "match" and some do NOT.
...then there are some that "partially" match...
..then there are "re-stamped matched" cars...
Not
Correctly
Re-stamped
Stingray
...then there are some that "partially" match...
..then there are "re-stamped matched" cars...
Not
Correctly
Re-stamped
Stingray
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Intermediate
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 39
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From: Houston Texas
Thanks Guys, when I bought the car the guy told me that the numbers matched, I thought that ment just the drive train, motor,trans and diff. it has a few new parts on it like the alt and dist. but I think most everything else is original.
